12/14/2025 Presider Announcements

*WELCOME to HOSANNA & HAPPY 3rd WEEK OF ADVENT! – *Warmest welcome to all of you, especially if you are visiting or re-visiting! Please let our Welcoming Team give you our welcoming gift! Fill-out a yellow newcomer’s contact card so that we can keep in touch! We welcome you into this family of Christ’s loving arms and remain here for you as His body to grow and flourish together!
 
*DISMISSAL of children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Ministry and Youth Group to Bible study + Lunch! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Minister Sewon Cho’s children’s ministry – please proceed to the children’s chapel down the hallway to the left! And youth group can head to your Bible study and lunch hour with Rev. Sooyoung Song. *Preschool worship children should already be in the preschool worship room with Director Rachel, and will continue to begin simultaneously at 10:30am in the preschool worship room.
 
*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (12/20) – CHRISTMAS FELLOWSHIP & GIFT EXCHANGE, 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Dinner provided! Bring a gift of around $20 or less if you desire to participate in the gift exchange!
 
*UPCOMING – NEXT SUNDAY (12/21) – ALL-CONGREGATION CHRISTMAS WORSHIP, ADVENT CANDLELIGHTING SCRIPTURE READING & CHRISTMAS SONGS/HYMNS, 10:30am – Please bring your whole family together into worship. Children & Youth will be dismissed at 10:55am to their Christmas presentation with the Korean congregation. Director Rachel will oversee early childhood and preschool ministry. Minister Chao will lead us in the assignment of nativity Scripture reading/advent candle/lighting, and additional Christmas praise songs/hymns! Let us rejoice at again at the birth of our newborn King Jesus Christ!
 
*CONTINUE ADVENT DEVOTIONS – Advent means “arrival, coming, beginning” from the Latin “adventus.” The early forefathers of the church recognized these four weeks leading up to Christmas to be a holy season of preparing for Christ’s arrival. For this 3rd week, following along the daily devotion from our good friends at Highland Park Presbyterian Church’s Advent Reflection Guide – Week 3 “The Highway Through the Wilderness” – https://hppres.org/updates/advent-reflection-guide-week-3/. May the Lord prepare us once again to celebrate the arrival of Jesus Christ as our newborn King!
 
*TODAY (12/14) – DISHWASHING ministry, 12:40pm – The weekend kitchen ministry will conclude with dishwashing today. Thank you to all the kitchen servants who served over the weekend!
 
*TODAY (12/14) – BAPTISM orientation, 1:10pm at Corner Conference Room – All welcomed to join to learn! Pray for our baptism candidate Mya Krief.
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*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on Christmas Advent season & December ministries
 
Scripture:
 
And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (LUKE 2:6-7)
 
And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. (MATTHEW 2:9-11)
 
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. (LUKE 2:10-11)
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You this 3rd week of holy Advent on the eve of Christmas Lord’s Day next Sunday. We eagerly wait to celebrate Your eternal Son’s first arrival and hope in His second coming, with exceeding and great joy, just as the wise men of the east did when they saw the star rise and go before them to rest over the place where the child Jesus was. We fall down to worship Christ Jesus as Lord again, offering our treasures and our lives to our humble newborn King, who was conceived by the holy Spirit in the womb of virgin Mary, as her firstborn son and wrapped in swaddling cloths to be laid where no King should be laid – in a manger for animal food, because there was no place in the inn. Yet find us, O Lord, to give you the highest place, the central place, the dwelling place of our lives as we fall down before Your manger. We worship with the angelic hosts, who told us not to fear, who brought us the good news of great joy that is for all the people, that unto us is born in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ Jesus the Lord! May that great joy of our newborn Lord be with us today in breakout discussion groups after-service, to our humble dishwashers as they serve, to our baptism orientation with sister Mya, to the great joy of our birthdays tomorrow for Kate and Minster Chao, and Jason on Tuesday, to our Christmas fellowship and gift exchange on Saturday, to next Sunday’s blessed Christmas Worship, advent candlelighting, youth & children’s Christmas presentations – may the joy of Christ Jesus our newborn King and Lord rest among us and fill us to overflow for the only true reason for this season, in the resurrected name of our humble King Jesus from the manger, to the cross, to the tomb, and back to the right hand of the Father in heaven, and to come again in glory, Amen & Amen.